Billboard · Radio & Records · 1958–2026
ChartVault keeps the weekly national charts the way the trade papers printed them: the Hot 100 with its red rings and banners, R&R’s airplay charts with their green bullets, and every record’s run, week by week, from debut to drop-off. Look up any song or any artist, and see what they did on every chart.
Counted from the archive itself, and still growing: every new year and every new chart shows up here as it is loaded.
Billboard sold the hits; Radio & Records tracked what radio actually played. ChartVault files both against one list of records and one list of acts, so a song that ran on the Hot 100 and on R&R’s CHR is a single song page with both runs on it.
Set the way Billboard set it: red rings, NEW▶ arrows, Power Picks and Hot Shot Debuts.
The radio trade paper’s airplay charts, with three weeks of history and the green bullet for gaining plays.
Every year the archive holds, by decade. A dark square opens that year’s charts; a pale one is a year still to come.
The archive keeps the magazines’ own marks, so a chart here reads the way it did on the page. A quick key:
Billboard’s bullet: among the week’s biggest sales and airplay gains. A ringed record can still hold or slip a place. Filled in, it’s a 1980–83 “superstar.”
R&R’s bullet: the record gained airplay that week. It marks more plays, not a higher rank.
Written across the history columns, as printed. A dash means the record wasn’t on the chart that week.
No. 1 with its weeks at the top, Power Picks, Hot Movers, Greatest Gainers and the Hot Shot Debut, each over its row.
Every record that made a chart: its credit, its peak on every chart it reached, and its run drawn week by week.
Everything an act charted, on every chart, under one name, duets and featured credits included.
Open any song and you get the numbers behind it, chart by chart: